ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,123, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to 10x Genomics Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Spatial targeting of analytes" was invented by Preyas Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Eswar Prasad Ramachandran Iyer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for targeting one or more features in a region of interest, and efficiently removing the features from an array of features. The systems and methods can remove one or more beads that contain analytes, intermediate agents, or a combination thereof, from the region of interest of a substrate by emitting light toward the beads on the substrate."
The patent was f...